Category Archives: workshops

This week we have been working with people at a Blackpool hostel as part of our Art Buddies Project. Taking creative activities to people who may not have the opportunity to get involved with the arts due to circumstance or ill health. The project is funded by BCH.

Later this week we will be at Highfield Park creating art works for the park with the community and Friends of Highfield Park volunteers. Due to the weather forcast for rain on Wednesday we are there on Thursday.

With the community in Revoe and the Art Club Hand Made Un’s we created two new poster for the front of the King Edward Cinema. Project commissioned by Blackpools’ Healthy Living and Creative Design Officer.

Revoe Community Choir participated in the ‘Marking the Martyrs’ parade on Saturday 2nd June.

With the Hand Made Un’s and community members in the Central and Revoe area we are creating a community mosaic. The mosaic will be installed on the empty spaces along the George Hotel on Central Drive visible to the wider community.

Work started in May after 2 days of sorting and cutting tiles

We received a very generous donation of tiles from Al-Murad Tiles Blackpool branch. Thanks to artist Kass –

Hand Made Un’s art works on plates dishes, cups and saucers, will be for sale on 18th August at Revoe Fun Day.

items such as these beautiful Blackpool themed plates are now available prices start at £3: half the money will go to the community center the other half to the lifeboats.

On Saturday August 18th

We will be running a workshop for children customising bandannas at the Fun Day.

We are currently working with Shabby2Chic and the wonderful Sandra, in Knott End. An exiting opportunity to be involved with the Wise Owls project in a fantastic new venue for exhibiting and selling began this week. We will be in Knott End at the studio every Monday.

In January we will be continued with the successful ‘Art Buddies’ in a new Blackpool location – Marton . The first leaflets have now been distributed to people in sheltered housing in Marton. The project is funded by Blackpool Coastal Housing.

In February we exhibited a selection of our work at Urban Arts Studio St Annes.

Picking out unusual plant and flower and plant names from the ‘mystery bag’ first the pupils then drew out a design of how they visualized their plant might look. Later after making the plants and flowers using recycled materials they researched how the plant really looked and where in the world the plant came from.

The project was set up to support and publicise the community garden project on Central Drive and is funded by LeftCoast.

Each pupil picked out an unusually named plant or flower from the ‘mystery bag’ and then drew a design of how they thought the plant might look. We invited the young people to research the origins of the plants and to look up how the plant really looked, after they had created these amazing fantasy plants using recycled materials.

These are just a small sample of all the plants created.

This project is supported by the local community and funded by LeftCoast as part of their ‘Growing People’ initiative in Blackpool